Urge your state legislators to co-sponsor workers' rights bills in Colorado
Workers deserve more rights
We live in a culture where corporations simply have too much power. Currently, they can:
- Ask us to sign away our rights
- Push us out of our jobs for any reason or no reason
- Work while grieving a loved one
- Check our credit in the hiring process
- Fail to conduct investigations for reports of sexual harassment
- Discriminate against those suffering from domestic violence
- Retaliate against injured workers
- Make it difficult for us to leave toxic workplaces when our healthcare is tied to our jobs
- Silence us when we've been abused
- Pay some workers below minimum wage
- Not grant sufficient sick leave amid COVID-19
- Conduct abusive scheduling practices
- Avoid accountability for discrimination through wages and promotions
- Steal wages
- Block public employees from striking
- Ask about our desired salary ranges, which has a discriminatory impact
- Verbally abuse and sabotage workers with zero accountability
We can change this toxic culture for workers through by passing these bills into law:
Protecting Opportunities and Workers' Rights (POWR) Act, SB23-172
This bill specifies that in harassment claims, the alleged conduct need not be severe or pervasive to constitute a discriminatory or unfair employment practice. It also provides workers with stronger rights around disability accommodations, timely investigations, and nondisclosure provisions.
Fair Workweek Scheduling, HB23-1118
The bill imposes requirements for certain types of employers with regard to:
- The determination of employee work schedules;
- Employee requests for changes to work schedules; and
- Notices and posting of employee work schedules.